The Church Life Profile

Each church’s

survey results are

outlined in their

unique Church

Life Profile

Front cover information

Name of this church

This church’s Circle of

Strengths

This church’s locale

This church’s level of survey

participation

Church Life Profile – the overview

Open out the front

and back cover,

to form an A3

poster overview

of this church’s

results

Church Life Profile – the structure

Page 3 gives an

outline of the

Profile showing

its structure and

the page numbers

of its different

sections

(Study page 4 and the inside back cover to understand how it works)

Church Life Profile – the model

Page 4 and the

inside back cover

explain the NCLS

model with its 9

Core Qualities

and 3 Attendance

Measures and

shows how the

Summary Scores

are calculated

Church Life Profile – Summary Review

Pages 6 to 10 give a Summary Review of the church’s results, showing Core

Quality strengths and their change over time, their attenders’ gifts, hopes for the

church and what they most value here, and the Inflow/Outflow of attendance

Church Life Profile – Detailed Review

Pages 12 to 20

give detail of

attenders’

answers to

questions

relating to

each of the

Core Qualities

– one page per

Core Quality

Information on each page

for this church

Headline narrative data about

this Core Quality

Graph for the key question of

this Core Quality

Graph of key indicator

response over time

Detail of attenders’ answers

to this Quality’s questions

against two comparative

benchmark columns

Response rate for this church

and its region

Church Life Profile – Detailed Review

One Core Quality per page makes for ease of engagement by the church.

The page can be downloaded or copied to help a church or a ministry

team to focus together on that one aspect of church life and dig deeper

Internal Inspirational Outward

Church Life Profile – about your attenders

Pages 22 – 25 give details of attendance:

• The proportion of long term attenders,

switchers, transfers, newcomers and

young people retained by the church

as they moved from childhood to

young adulthood

• Attenders’ demographics and their

levels of active involvement in the life

of the church

The church is a presence

in its neighbourhood and

Page 26 gives details of

the people who live there.

This is taken from your

church’s 2006 Community

Social Profile; NCLS will

produce your 2011

Community Social Profile

next year when 2011

Australian Census data

becomes fully available

Church Life Profile – about your neighbourhood

Church Life Profile – optional Surveys

For those churches that elected to do

the optional NCLS PLUS Surveys there

are two pages of data for each survey

giving details about those surveyed,

their spirituality and their connection to

the church.

The Optional Surveys were for child attenders aged 8-14, Youth/young adults (online survey) people who connect with the church

but are not regular attenders (online

survey)

Church Life Profile – denominational questions

Some denominations and

regions commissioned

questions to be directed to

their attenders.

For churches that

answered denominational

questions there is one

page of results showing

their responses to those

questions

Church Life Profile – confidentiality

NCLS Research has a commitment to confidentiality.

1. If less than 10 people complete a Survey – the

standard Attender Survey or any of the optional

Surveys – NCLS Research will not produce

detailed results for that church or group. However

the input of that church or group will form part of

the regional, denominational and national results.

2. Regional leaders and Coordinators can access

each of their church’s Church Life Profiles online,

but only after completing the NCLS Protocol that

assures they have the right to do so.